Broad-bordered yellow underwing
The broad-bordered yellow underwing is a big moth with brown or olive green front wings. When it flies, it flashes bright orange back wings with a very wide black border. The flash of colour can startle a hungry bird.
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Fun facts
When it rests, its front wings cover the bright back wings, so it is hard to see.
The females are usually pale reddish brown, while the males are red brown or olive green.
Its caterpillar spends the winter as a caterpillar and keeps growing in spring.
The moths fly from late June until October.
Most asked questions about Broad-bordered yellow underwing
?What does the broad-bordered yellow underwing eat?
Its caterpillars eat cowslips, dandelions, grapevines and many other plants.
?How big is the broad-bordered yellow underwing?
Its wings measure about 4.5 to 5.5 centimetres from tip to tip.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Noctua fimbriata
- Named by
- Schreber, 1759
- Group
- Moths
- Family
- Noctuidae
- Classification
- Insecta > Lepidoptera > Noctuidae
- Lives on
- Europe, Asia
Where the facts come from
- Noctua fimbriata (Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0): what it looks like, where it lives, what it eats, sizes and fun facts, retold in simple words.
- Picture by Lymantria. CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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